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Bees turn Afghan teenage girl into an entrepreneur

Bees turn Afghan teenage girl into an entrepreneur

-- 2018-04-07 16:30:43

In war-torn Afghanistan, honey is regarded as a traditional cure-all but for one schoolgirl, the sticky commodity has also created sweet opportunities to work and own a business in a country where few...

Truck rams into auto-rickshaws, killing eight in India

Truck rams into auto-rickshaws, killing eight in India

-- 2018-04-07 14:50:44

At least eight people have been killed and five others injured after a speeding truck rammed into two passenger auto-rickshaws in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh Saturday, police said. The...

Airstrikes kill six militants in Afghanistan

Airstrikes kill six militants in Afghanistan

-- 2018-04-07 14:23:03

At least six militants of Islamic State (IS) terrorist group were killed in airstrikes, conducted by the US and NATO-led coalition forces, in two Afghan provinces, authorities said Saturday. In o...

Ethiopia restores internet services

Ethiopia restores internet services

-- 2018-04-07 13:39:02

Mobile internet services have been restored in many areas of Ethiopia following a shutdown of months. It comes after new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promised to bring about reforms in the country, whic...

14 die in Canada hockey team bus crash

14 die in Canada hockey team bus crash

-- 2018-04-07 13:26:25

Police in Canada have confirmed that 14 people were killed when a lorry and a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided on Friday evening. The Humboldt Broncos were travelling on Highway 35, nor...

Strong quake batters Papua New Guinea

Strong quake batters Papua New Guinea

-- 2018-04-07 13:08:41

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.3 rocked the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea on Saturday, the European earthquake monitoring service reported. The very shallow quake was only two kms (1.2 m...

Russia building fire takes six lives

Russia building fire takes six lives

-- 2018-04-07 13:00:54

Six people have died after a fierce fire gutted a residential building in Ussuriysk in the Russian federal subject of Primorsky Krai, the local department of Russian Investigative Committee said Satur...

Former Brazilian chief justice mulls presidential run

Former Brazilian chief justice mulls presidential run

-- 2018-04-07 11:41:50

Former chief justice and the first black member of Brazil’s Supreme Court, Joaquim Barbosa, joined the centre-left Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) late on Friday mulling a presidential bid in th...

Ex-Russian spy ‘recovering rapidly’ after poison attack

Ex-Russian spy ‘recovering rapidly’ after poison attack

-- 2018-04-07 10:08:29

Russian former spy Sergei Skripal is no longer in a critical condition after being poisoned by a nerve agent, doctors have said. Salisbury District Hospital said Skripal is responding well to treatme...

Unrest erupts on Gaza-Israel border

Unrest erupts on Gaza-Israel border

-- 2018-04-06 22:59:31

Three Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces during fresh protests on Gaza's border with Israel, Palestinian health ministry officials say. The Israeli military said troops had opened fire w...

UN peacekeepers die in mortar attack in Mali

UN peacekeepers die in mortar attack in Mali

-- 2018-04-06 22:51:17

Two United Nations peacekeepers have been killed in a mortar attack in the far north of Mali. The two Chadians were killed and 10 other peacekeepers were injured in the attack on the UN base at Agelh...

Robbers blow up Nigerian banks with dynamites

Robbers blow up Nigerian banks with dynamites

-- 2018-04-06 22:46:33

Armed robbers Friday blew up the entrances of five banks in central Nigeria's Offa town with dynamite, in an operation which lasted for more than an hour after the close of business and left six polic...

Spain optimistic of Gibraltar deal by summer

Spain optimistic of Gibraltar deal by summer

-- 2018-04-06 22:27:59

Spain hopes to reach an agreement with the UK over Gibraltar by the summer, its foreign minister has said on Friday. Alfonso Dastis said Spain would "defend our position" but the two sides were "work...

US slaps major sanctions on Russian oligarchs

US slaps major sanctions on Russian oligarchs

-- 2018-04-06 21:19:04

The US has imposed sanctions on seven Russian oligarchs and 17 senior government officials, accusing them of "malign activity around the globe". Twelve companies owned by the oligarchs, a state-owned...

London police call urgent meeting following a series of stabbings

London police call urgent meeting following a series of stabbings

-- 2018-04-06 20:44:03

London police called an emergency meeting of community leaders on Friday after six stabbings in a matter of hours, as they tried to stem a wave of knife crime that threatens to dominate the city&rsquo...

Freed ex-Catalan leader calls for immediate dialogue

Freed ex-Catalan leader calls for immediate dialogue

-- 2018-04-06 18:36:46

Catalan ex-leader Carles Puigdemont on Friday has called for immediate dialogue after being released on bail in Germany. So far, he and other separatists had received only a "repressive response" fro...

S Korea’s ex-leader gets hefty jail term

S Korea’s ex-leader gets hefty jail term

-- 2018-04-06 14:50:03

South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye has been sentenced to 24 years in jail after she was found guilty of abuse of power and coercion. The verdict was broadcast live and represents the culmin...

Former SA President Zuma due in court

Former SA President Zuma due in court

-- 2018-04-06 12:47:20

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma is due in court on corruption charges related to a $2.5 billion arms deal in the 1990s. He will face 16 counts of corruption, racketeering, fraud and money...

Vietnam jails six prominent activists

Vietnam jails six prominent activists

-- 2018-04-06 12:26:28

Six prominent Vietnamese activists have received heavy prison sentences on charges of "attempting to overthrow" the country's communist government. Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai was sentenced to 15 years, wh...

UK is ‘playing with fire’, says Russia

UK is ‘playing with fire’, says Russia

-- 2018-04-06 12:07:06

Russia has accused the UK of inventing a "fake story" and "playing with fire" over the Salisbury spy poisoning. At a UN Security Council meeting, Moscow's UN ambassador Vasily Nebenzia said Britain's...

Brazil judge orders ex-president Lula jailed by Friday

Brazil judge orders ex-president Lula jailed by Friday

-- 2018-04-06 11:54:43

A Brazilian judge on Thursday ordered former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to turn himself in to police within 24 hours to serve a 12-year sentence for a graft conviction, likely ending the pres...

139 Pakistan entries on UN terror list

139 Pakistan entries on UN terror list

-- 2018-04-05 21:32:01

The UN Security Council (UNSC) has released an updated list of terrorist individuals and entities out of which 139 entries stem from Pakistan and include Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafeez Saeed's...

Russia launches missile tests, triggers partial closure of Baltic Sea

Russia launches missile tests, triggers partial closure of Baltic Sea

-- 2018-04-05 19:22:37

Russia began testing missiles with live munitions in the Baltic Sea on Wednesday, alarming Latvia, a member of NATO, which says the drills have forced it partly to shut down Baltic commercial airspace...

Saudi cinema to reopen on April 18 after decades

Saudi cinema to reopen on April 18 after decades

-- 2018-04-05 18:32:47

Saudi Arabia's first cinema in more than 35 years is set to reopen on 18 April, showing the action movie Black Panther. It is part of a deal done with the world's biggest cinema chain, AMC, to open u...

Roof collapse kills six miners in Georgia

Roof collapse kills six miners in Georgia

-- 2018-04-05 15:59:42

Six miners have been killed and three others injured on Thursday when the roof of a coal mine in western Georgia collapsed, the country’s interior ministry said. The ministry said in a statemen...

Cameroon security forces free 18 hostages

Cameroon security forces free 18 hostages

-- 2018-04-05 12:36:12

Twelve Europeans and six Cameroonians, who were seized by ‘secessionist terrorists’ in south-western Cameroon, have been freed in a military operation, a government statement said. It occ...

US to sanction Russian oligarchs

US to sanction Russian oligarchs

-- 2018-04-05 12:20:20

The United States plans to sanction Russian oligarchs this week under a law targeting Moscow for meddling in the 2016 US election, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, in what could be...

Brazil’s top court rejects Lula’s plea to avoid jail

Brazil’s top court rejects Lula’s plea to avoid jail

-- 2018-04-05 12:10:25

Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled early on Thursday that leftist former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva must start serving a 12-year prison sentence for taking bribes, denying his plea to remain...

6.0 quake batters southern Philippines

6.0 quake batters southern Philippines

-- 2018-04-05 11:41:17

An earthquake measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale rocked Davao Oriental province in southern Philippines on Thursday, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. In a repor...

Police identify YouTube attacker as vegan activist

Police identify YouTube attacker as vegan activist

-- 2018-04-04 18:57:20

The woman identified by police as the attacker who wounded three people at YouTube’s headquarters in California was a vegan blogger who accused the video-sharing service of discriminating agains...